Shipping container



May 8, 1934-l E. L.. sNow ET AL 1,958,352

SHIPPING CONTAINER Filed Dec. 5, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l u MM oo uo {o} o o oo o] oo oo non Il? ATTORNEY May 8, 1934- E. L.. SNOW ET AL 1,958,352

SHIPPING CONTAINER Filed Dec. 5, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented May 8, 1934- UNITED STATES SHIPPING CONTAINER Early L. Snow and Earnest L. Barkley, Jr., Winston-Salem, N. C.

Application December 5, 1932, Serial No. 645,822

1 Claim.

of an article of this character, wherein its con-l struction permits the knocking down thereof when not to be used so as to enable the storage within the least possible space either during transit or when confined within an enclosure, the article in its entirety being of novel construction.

A further object of the invention is the provision of an article of this character which is extremely simple in construction, reliable and eicient for its purposes, strong, durable, readily and easily set up or knocked down, and inexpensive n to manufacture.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which disclose the preferred embodiment of the invention, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an article constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan View thereof.

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view. I

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary horizontal sectional view showing in detail the manner of fastening the sections of the body together.

Figure 5 is a side elevation.

' Figure 6 is a sectional view on the line 6-6 of Figurel.

Figure 7 is a fragmentary elevation of one of the hinges for the top end of the article.

FigureA 8 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 8-8 of Figure 1.

Figure 9 is a sectional view on the line 9-9 of Figure 1.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the article in this instance, constituting the present invention, is representative of a hogshead designed primarily for the storage of leaf tobacco and comprises a staved body A, the same being outwardly bulged and is in the form of barrel halves or companion sections 10 and 11 respectively. The staves 12 are longitudinally disposed and embraced intermediate and near the ends thereof by steel l rings or bands 13 riveted at 14 at intervals throughout the extent of such halves or sections.

At the meeting edges of the halves or sections 10 and 11 and superimposed upon the rings or bands 6,. are hinge leaves 15 and 16 respectively, each leaf 16 preferably being formed with double pintle eyes 17, while each leaf l5 preferably is formed with a single pintle eye 18, although these eyes may be otherwise formed, and the pintle eye 18 ,m is adapted to intert with the eyes 17 therebetween to accommodate pintle bolts 19. The pintle bolts 19 are held engaged with the eyes 17 and 18 by Cotter pins 20. Thus in this manner the rhalves or sections 10 and 1l are detachably joined 75 together for the setting up of the body of the article as is clearly apparent from Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings.

Mounted in opposite ends of the body of the article are the bottom and top ends or heads 2l and 22 respectively, each being reinforced by 80 cross pieces 23.

The ends or heads 21 and 22 each is detachably united with the body of the article and this is had with respect to the end or head 22 by the use of the hinge leaves 24 and 25 respectively, the leaf 25 being formed with two or more pintle eyes 26 while the leaf 24 is formed with one or more pintle eyes 27, these being intertted to receive the pintle bolts 28 held engaged by Cotter pins 29. It will be apparent that the connection of the end or head 22 is identical to the connection of the halves or sections 10 and 11.

The bottom end or head 21 is removably held within the halves or sections 10 and 1l by resting upon a. retaining member 30 made secure to the inner faces of the halves or sections 10 and 11 thereof next to the bottom end of the body of the article as will be apparent from Figures 8 and 9 of the drawings.

When it is desired to knock down the article it is only necessary to release the pintle bolts 19 and 28, whereupon the end head 22 can be separated and likewise the halves or sections 10 and 11, while the bottom end or head 21 will be released from the member 30 as should be obvious.

What is claimed is:

An article of the kind described comprising a longitudinally split barrel body, hoop sections made fast exteriorly of said body, intertting pintle eyes at the ends adjacent each other of the hoop sections, Cotter-pinned pintles in said eyes, heads in the ends of the body, separable leaf hinges carried by the heads and hoop sections adjacent thereto, and cotter pinned pintles for said hinges. u"

EARLY L. SNOW. EARNEST L. BARKLEY, JR. 

